I didn’t get around to posting last week’s M3 pages from the Advocate of Victoria, Texas. Sorry ’bout that.
The Victoria Advocate — circulation 33,549 — runs wonderfully inventive presentations each Friday in its entertainment tab, thanks to design guru Ryan Huddle and his wife, features reporter Aprill Brandon.
If you read this blog regularly, then you know I’ve been tooting their horns for quite some time. And for good reason. They do fun stuff with very few resources other than their own wits.
Last week, the M3 section — which stands for “Music, movies and more” — took on how to host the perfect movie party.
Ryan writes:
I didn’t have a lot of time to work on this weeks M3, so a lot of the staff helped out with some pages. [Multimedia editor] Robert Zavala did the cover and doubletruck this week.
Here’s the cover (click any image today for a larger view)…
…and here’s the center spread, with amusing write-ups by Aprill:
Ryan did design the facing pages about 3D movies, which also contained an article by Aprill:
Ryan tells us:
This is probably the first page I’ve done that looks better in newsprint than on the web. I was a little nervous about it because — when I was building it — I didn’t have 3D glasses to check to see if it would work.
I went into a local video and music store last Friday where the people there said they sold some 3D glasses that day.
This week, M3 covered the new fall TV season. The front page:
Ryan says:
I was able to get “shit” on the cover.
Well, not really. It’s spelled like the TV show. I don’t know how different that is or how many calls we will be getting tomorrow. But the editor said it was OK.
Here’s the center spread, which — yet again, I think — Ryan completely knocked out of the park:
Ryan tells us:
I really never want to cut out that many photos in a short amount of time again.
The text, yet again, is all by Aprill. Note the local sidebar on the right.
More cool stuff from the folks at the Victoria Advocate:
- Wacky coverage of a wacky fashion show in Austin.
- An interview with wrassler Steve Austin.
- Aprill gets a tattoo in order to research tattoo parlors.
- The search for the ultimate local cheeseburger.
- A ‘who’s who’ of vampires for the new Eclipse movie.
- A cool ‘totally wicked awesome’ 1980s game board treatment.
- A blueprint treatment for this year’s Iron Man 2 movie.
- The teenage-themed vampire movie New Moon.
- Last summer’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- A page-topper for last summer’s Star Trek movie.
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (scroll down a bit).
- Also from two years ago, The Dark Knight. (Scroll down for that one, as well. And then click here for more.)
- For Halloween, the Advocate produced a musical starring reporter April Brandon: Chupacabra: The Musical.
- Find a lot of additional movie treatments from Victoria here.
